Image: Orca skull, Taranaki St, Wellington, 4 October 1995

Laurence Aberhart

Embodied Archaeologies
Excavation Songs

When the National Museum and Art Gallery in Pukeahu were closed down in anticipation of the shift in 1998 to the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, a temporary storage space in Buckle Street housed some of the objects waiting for their new home. Photographer, Aberhart was given access to this storage space where he took a series of haunting photographs. ‘Orca skull’ is from Aberhart (2007). Aberhart’s photographs meditate on our culture and the passing of time and observe those things that remain.